Lie It As It Plays: Chaucer Becomes an Author

Author / Editor
Sanders, Barry.

Title
Lie It As It Plays: Chaucer Becomes an Author

Published
David R. Olson and Nancy Torrance, eds. Literacy and Orality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 111-28.

Description
In GP, Chaucer poses himself as a "liar," capable of impossible feats of memory; in tales such as MilT, he capitalizes on the oral genre of joking. As a liar and a joker, the literate Chaucer manipulates oral expectations, compelling his audience to recognize the art of fiction and join in his laughter.

Contributor
Olson, David R., ed.
Torrance, Nancy, ed.

Alternative Title
Literacy and Orality.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Miller and His Tale.